Cluster commands overview

You can use cluster commands to administer server clusters from the Windows 2000 command prompt. You can also call the program Cluster.exe from command scripts to automate many cluster administration tasks. Cluster.exe is provided on all Windows 2000 computers.

You can use Cluster.exe to administer clusters from a node of the cluster, from nodes of other clusters, or from other computers running Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3 or later.

The following rules apply when entering commands from the command prompt:

• You must use quotation marks around all names that contain spaces and special characters. Examples of special characters are: the minus sign (-), the slash mark (/), quotation marks ("), the colon (:), the comma (,), and the equal sign (=). For other examples, see the cluster commands in Related Topics.
• When setting properties to True or False, specify 1 (one) for True and 0 (zero) for False.
• You specify the local cluster when you enter a PERIOD (.) in the command for cluster name.
• You can specify multiple options for one command line. Cluster.exe processes options from left to right. If an option fails, the command will stop executing at the failed option.
• Use double quotation marks (") in a string that has two consecutive double quotation marks (""). The following example shows double quotation marks in a string:

  cluster resource AResource /priv aProp="a """

This topic describes the cluster commands, command abbreviations, and property lists:

• Cluster
• Cluster node
• Cluster group
• Cluster network
• Cluster netinterface
• Cluster resource
• Cluster resourcetype
• Cluster command abbreviations
• Property lists

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